What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[jenptcfan]

I saw this on a different message board and thought it sounded fun.

Here's mine...

"Let's do it." Dusk was settling in. The air was cool, fragrant with pine and sage, and the swiftly moving river beckoned.

(From Captivating by John and Stasi Eldridge)

 

[5stringJeff]

"SQL (short for structured query language) is an industry-standard language specifically designed to enable people to create databases, add new data to databases, maintain the data, and retreive selected parts of the data."

-- SQL for Dummies

 

[jenptcfan]

"SQL (short for structured query language) is an industry-standard language specifically designed to enable people to create databases, add new data to databases, maintain the data, and retreive selected parts of the data."

-- SQL for Dummies

Bless your heart. I actually made it through a whole day today without having to use SQL at work...but if I ever get stuck, I'll know who to PM for help!

Sorry...carry on!

 

[lillybug0514]

"He knew he was lying on the ground because there was dampness under his back, and because he smelled fresh grass."

- Fortune's Hand by Belvia Plain

 

[tel0004]

closest book to me

ok

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

I dont think I need to tell you what book that is out of

 

[12volt_man]

It is no accident that songs of "home" - of seperation from family, from a place in time, from a way of life - date back at least to the post-Civil War era as a theme in Southern musical expression. - "Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy" by Dorothy Horstman

 

[KristyAnne]

"It is late, nearly lightless."
Old Souls, by Tom Shroder

 

[Nienor]

Mason City. To get there you follow Highway 58, going Northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new.

(From All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, a most excellent book)

 

[VickiY]

"Thou, O God, hast opened wide to me Thy truth and Thy Verity."

My Life in Christ, by St. John of Kronstadt

 

[Nienor]

"I stared out of the window onto streets I couldn't see and thought about castles"

(Teckla by Steven Brust)

 

[Ant21]

"this is a record of the ancestors of jesus the messiah, a desendant of king david and of abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac."

 

[jenptcfan]

My brother's first serious girlfriend was eight years older--twenty-eight to his twenty.

From the Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing byb Melissa Bank

 

[Ellesar]

"The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living."

~Eldest, by Christopher Paolini

 

[glo]

I actually have a Bible next to me.
I'm sure almost all of us know what the first line of that book is.

I haven't read it in ages though. .
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Next closest is this book:
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

 

[HeyHomie]

"Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading out circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action."

From A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Penultimate Peril: Book the Twelfth by Lemony Snicket.

 

[Nienor]

Next closest is this book:
"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.
-Anansi Boys for Neil Gaiman

 

[glo]

Call me Ishmael.

 

[Dust and Ashes]

"This book is written for people who have but one ultimate desire---to be in love with God. More specifically, I could say it is for evangelical Protestants who have devoted their lives to finding an intimate relationship with God. But most especially, it is for those sincere but often misunderstood souls who have been willing to lay aside doctrinal and denominational allegiance in their devoted quest for that mysterious "something" --that indefinable element of true faith for which they long, but which no church, doctrine or teacher has ever been able to place within their outstretched hands." -- Thirsting for God in a Land of Shallow Wells - Matthew Gallatin

Ok, that's the first paragraph but it really grabbed me the 1st time I read it.

 

[Gentle]

The Time Traveller(for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

Time Machine Wells

 

[agyevesam]

Who am I? and how, I wonder, will this story end? - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Everyone should read this book, don't settle for seeing the movie, it doesn't do the book justice at all!!